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Date:      Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:04:05 -0500
From:      Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
To:        Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
Cc:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD smbfs horribly slow
Message-ID:  <EE3E327E-FAC5-4647-98C1-FB4E7CC56708@longcount.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2ByoEx9hsLB9BRJpFBPJ4e1f9vRnCPeRCu-bsESuQRFF=hEmXA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20151113162548.61529137@Papi> <56463ACE.5020605@freebsd.org> <CA%2ByoEx9hsLB9BRJpFBPJ4e1f9vRnCPeRCu-bsESuQRFF=hEmXA@mail.gmail.com>

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Mario
  Can you share more about your setup .
What filesystem is the samba share exported from . What mount options on the=
 filesystem level do you use ?

What version of samba , was it from ports or a package ?

On the samba level can you tell us about your config ? Have you tried any of=
 the tuning from=20
https://calomel.org/samba_optimize.html

Did you change any sysctls ? What did you set ?

Lastly what's the hardware like ; CPU, nic type , ram , etc=20

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Mark Saad | nonesuch@longcount.org

> On Nov 13, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:
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> 2015-11-13 16:32 GMT-03:00 Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>:
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>>> On 2015-11-13 14:25, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>> Hi;
>>>=20
>>> It seems no one in @questions had any info/pointers/interest on this
>>> so I'm trying @hackers for some light.
>>>=20
>>> Thanks,
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>=20
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:53:11 -0300
>>> From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
>>> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>>> Subject: FreeBSD smbfs horribly slow
>>>=20
>>> Googling on this subject, I found:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-September/09871=
7.html
>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-January/034239.html=

>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-October/261804=
.html
>>>=20
>>> I am on 10.2-STABLE and using FreeBSD as a client to any amb share
>>> continues to be very slow.
>>>=20
>>> The share is mounted through mount_smbfs. I tried smbnetfs (fuse) and
>>> it is just a tiny bit better but doesn't compare to other clients
>>> (linux or win) when writing/reading files
>>>=20
>>> It gets even worse if an application is doing operations with variable
>>> size records inside a data file on the share.
>>>=20
>>> Does anyone have any advice to improve this?
>>>=20
>>> Thanks,
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
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>>=20
>> What kind of operations are you doing?
>>=20
>> I just mounted a share from my windows desktop on my FreeBSD -CURRENT
>> machine, and was able to write new files at 64 megabytes/s (roughly 1/2
>> the available gigabit/sec)
>>=20
>> Reading it back only got 50 megabytes/s, not sure why.
>>=20
>> --
>> Allan Jude
> Which one is the server? Windows or FBSD?
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> I have no problems with either one being the server. The problem is
> when FBSD is the client.
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> I wrote a daemon that executes operations on old DBF/NTX (clipper)
> files (Yeah, I know ... but that's what they have for 20+ years ..).
>=20
> Anyway, a site interacts with this daemon via tcp, with commands to
> add/delete/update records/indexes, as well as finding keys on the
> indexxes.
>=20
> I prepared a test that has several of these routines together on a
> 10.2-STABLE machine.
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> Enough to say that when executing the tests with the files stored
> locally, the whole test takes 3-4 seconds to complete.
>=20
> When doing the same test with the files on a share on the same wire (1G
> connection, no matter which OS runs the share), the test takes around
> 3:50 minutes to complete!
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> I am preparing a Centos VM and compiling the deamon on it to check the
> results.
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> --=20
> Mario Lobo
> http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
> FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)=

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